Person: Alexander Cunningham

INIG1348a caitra sudi 8 gurudine puṣyanakṣatre Surwāyā (Shivpuri). Recovered from a tank. 33 lines, nāgarī, Sanskrit. Mentions the construction of a tank (vāpikā) by ṭhakkur Vāmana in the time of Gaṇapati, son of Gopāla. Praises the city of Mathurā from whence the kāyasthas originated. Composed by Somamiśra, son of Somadhara, written by Mahārāja, son of Somarāja, and incised by Devasiṁha, son of Mādhava.

INIG1327 Rāi (Shivpuri). On a satī stone. 2 lines, nāgarī, Sanskrit. Mentions Yajvapāla Āsalladeva.

INIG1207 Chitolī (Gwalior). On an old stone sugar mill. Particulars not given. Mentions the Parihār ruler Rāmdev.

INIG1161 māgha śudi 6 Gwalior fort (Gwalior). From a Śiva temple. 9 lines, nāgarī, Sanskrit. Fragmentary inscription mentioning the Kacchapaghāta rulers Bhuvanapāla, Devapāla, his son Padmapāla and Mahīpāla. Records that Manoratha, a Māthura kāyastha, was married to Bhāvā (?) and that he was a servant of Bhuvanapāla. Their son was Mānicandra and he built a temple of Śiva (Smarārāti) and some other gods. Further recounts that Mānicandra was married to Rāsagati and that their sons were Madhusūdana and Āśācandra. The later (i.e. Āśācandra) built the present temple of Hara. Composed by the Jaina sage Yaśodeva. Now in the State Museum, Lucknow.

INIG1145 bhādrapada śudi 3 Dubkund (Sheopur). On a slab from the ruins of a Jaina temple. 61 lines, old nāgarī, Sanskrit. Genealogy of Kacchapaghāta mahārāja Vikramasiṁha. Arjunasiṁha, son of Yuvarāja, killed Rājyapāla (of Kannauj) at the insistence of Vidyādhara, the Candella ruler at Khajurāho. The son of Arjuna was Abhimanyu (in the time of Bhoja) and the son of Abhimanyu was Vijayapāla and that of Vijayapāla was Vikramasiṁha. Composed by Vijayakīrti son of Śāntiṣeṇa written by Udayarāja and incised by Tīlhaṇa. Now in the Archaeological Museum, Gwalior.

INIG960b bhādrapada badi 14 śanivāra, Terāhī (Shivpuri). On a memorial pillar. 5 lines, Old nāgarī, Sanskrit. Damaged, reading uncertain but mentions Gunarāja and Undabhaṭṭa. Now in the Archaeological Museum, Gwalior.

INIG960a bhādrapada badi 4 sanau, Terāhī (Shivpuri). On a memorial pillar. 5 lines, nāgarī, Sanskrit. Mentions a battle between Gunarāja and Undabhaṭṭa in which a partisan of Gunarāja named Gaṇḍiyāṇa was killed. Now in the Archaeological Museum, Gwalior.

Bodhgayā (बोधगया, often Bodh Gaya, Bihār).

OBCH0006 Bodhgayā stone slab with a seated Buddha, Mārīcī and a fragmentary Chinese inscription (INCH0006). The present location of the original is not recorded (07/2019).

INCH0006 Bodhgayā stone slab with a seated Buddha, Mārīcī and a fragmentary Chinese inscription (INCH0006). For an edition  栢本泰生. (2019). ボードガヤー出土の10~11 世紀漢文石刻資料と 訪天僧の奉獣品. (see CONCORDANCE).